WORDS (Introduction to power and Life)

                                           

                Words as I define is the most powerful intangible force in the whole universe. You wanna know why? Good! The world was created by words;

“Let there be light.”

                                                                                ---God.

                You are a product of powerful utterances that are divinely and supernaturally inspired. So words are not just mere utterances or a volume of dry gases emanating from your mouth.

                “The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. “

                                                                                                                                                ---Jesus.

                Have you ever wondered why some people close to us or not would say some things to us and we would change immediately? Words . . . They've been used to make us laugh and cry. They can wound or heal. They offer us hope or devastation. With words we can make our noblest intentions felt and our deepest affections known. Throughout human history, our greatest leaders, thinkers and public speakers have used the power of words to transform our emotions, to enlist us in their causes, and to shape the course of destiny. Words cannot only create emotions, they create actions. And from our actions flow the results of our lives. They can utter our emotions and change our reactions.

                Have you ever noticed or thought of the power of utterances in speeches? Do you remember I have a dream by Dr Martin Luther King Jnr, or as for me and my House by Joshua the son of Nun etc.? Those words did not just only change the drive and focus of people but change the course of history and destiny of races through human history. Many of us are well aware of the powerful pan that words have played in our history, of the power that great speakers have to move us, but few of us are aware of our own power to use these same words to move ourselves emotionally, to challenge, embolden, and strengthen our spirits, to move ourselves to action, to seek greater richness from this gift we call life.

                What a gift these simple symbols are! We transform these unique shapes we call letters (or sounds, in the case of the spoken word) into a unique and rich tapestry of human experience. They provide us with a vehicle for expressing and sharing our experience with others; however, most of us don't realize that the words you habitually choose also affect how you communicate with yourself and therefore what you experience. Words can injure our egos or inflame our hearts—we can instantly change any emotional experience simply by choosing new words to describe to ourselves what we're feeling.

                I have discovered lately that words have a biochemical effect, it can utter how we feel at any particular time. Sometimes when close friends fall under the weather, the doctor would run the test and predict the length of the sickness but immediately they get a call that a business proposal was approved or they won a huge sum of money, their weak or sick bodies would receive strength immediately (laughs). Have you experience how a bright, beautiful morning could turn so gloomy because you were told you failed the last in-course test or semester exams.

                Can you recollected the times when some authority figure would say some words directly to you and you would weep, but if they had changed it a bit you wouldn’t even care what was said, to find out what exactly those kind of words could be join us at CORE-man SENSE^TM

 In the next edition as we examine the power of words and its intensity.

THE TALE OF AN ADDICTED GAMBLER: OWOYELE DIARIES

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           Why do addicted gamblers and smokers give up on their habits only to pick them back on in few months or days? Why would you write a resolution and not fulfil one out of the list. These and many more we would find out in this series of CORE-man SENSE^TM.

"Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided."

JOHN LOCKE

This is the identical force that drives people to gamble. Once they've gambled and been rewarded—and linked intense pleasure to the reward—that excitement and anticipation pushes them to go forward.

                                                               

               

When they haven't been rewarded in a while, often they have an even stronger sense that this time they'll be rewarded. What drives the gambler is the possibility of winning again. If a person were to gamble without ever receiving a reward, they would give up.

                                               

 However, receiving just a few small rewards, winning just a few hands, "earning" back just some of their money, keeps them in a state of anticipation that they could hit the jackpot.

                                                      

                         

This is why people who discontinue a bad habit (like smoking or gambling) for a period of months, and then decide to have "just one more hit," are actually reinforcing the very pattern that they're trying to break and making it much more difficult to be free of the habit for a lifetime. If you smoke one more cigarette, you're stimulating your nervous system to expect that in the future you'll reward yourself this way again. You're keeping that neuro-association highly active and, in fact, strengthening the very habit you're trying to break!

                                                                      

         

When people give up on a particular habit and let the bad habit take the most of them without hesitating to give it a fight or perhaps you’ve tried once or twice and thought it doesn’t just work with this kind, this phenomenon is called learned helpnessness. Learned helplessness is a destructive mindset people develop when they experienced enough failure at something. Like I often say habits are tiny fragments of thoughts neatly interwoven into actions which find enough strength or cause to be repeated often in our daily activities. Most habits can be broken by deliberate and repeated undoing of the habit, when it comes to habit you don’t just do the opposite once; you continually do the opposite against the strength of the habit until your brain can’t find any neuro-association with that act anymore. This occurs on the average for most between 21-30 days.

Thoughts results to action, and actions results to habits. Why don’t you keep a conscious watch of your thought today? “Keep and guard your heart with all vigilance and above all that you guard, for out of it flows the springs of life.”                                                                      -PROVERBS 4:23

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Many define this as the basic knowledge on has to possess to carry out some basic functions in his environment. To some it is the wisdom required to for a man to live sanely and influential in his environment. It also could be sound practical judgement, but as the saying goes ‘common sense is not so common’. Do you think so?

                Titi was given a puzzle to solve in school, after so much brain-storming she gave it to her senior sister, she read it to herself as loud as she can so it can make sense to her mind. It goes:

A bag of cement weighs fifty kilograms and a pack of cotton weighs the same, which of the two is heavier.

Yeah, I know. You think that’s so simple and you’re smart enough to know the answer without straining a nerve cell. Here it is, I found out that sometimes the answer is right in front of you but as man  is; a complex animal by nature, a far-fetched thinker who sees beyond the box leaving the answer in the same box he came from.

                You think that’s too theoretical try this; a fifty litre keg containing palm-oil and a fifty litre keg containing petrol/gasoline, which of the two is heavier?

Yeah, I guess you’ve just met your match. Talking about the complexity of human nature, there are so many rules or laws governing many phenomenon in our lives and we fail to see them or recognise them because of our familiarity with them. We fail to question the reason why 2 + 2 is 4 and 2 * 2 is 4 yet leaving the same 4 + 4 which is 8 and 4 * 4 equals 16 from the scrutiny of our mental questioning. Sometimes we complicate simple things and make simple things complicated, did you see how complicated that was, I bet you skipped that.

                Writer Henry David Thoreau wrote,   “Many an object is not seen, though it falls within the range of our visual ray, because it does not come within the range of our intellectual ray.” I have observed a long time ago that the accuracy of man’s judgement is limited to the accuracy of his sight. From the puzzle above, you paint an imaginary picture in your mind to convey the thought, most likely you imagine a boll of cotton and a bag of cement, a fifty litre keg containing palm-oil and a fifty litre keg containing petrol/gasoline. If you haven’t seen anything like that before you may not have a vivid picture of what it is in your mental picture.

                Why don’t you develop a holistic perspective about everything you’re thinking about today and everything would be just fine.